After Savage, Domning & Thewissen, 1994, Domning, Beatty, Portell, Donovan, Mitchell, MacPhee & Flemming, 2001, and Domning, 1996, 2001
<==o Sirenia Illiger, 1811 (seacows, dudongs and manatees; seireenieläimet) |?- †Ishatherium subathuensis |--o Prorastomidae Cope, 1889 [Prorastomatidae Flower & Lydekker, 1891; Prorastominae Reinhart, 1959] | |-- †Pezosiren portelli Domning, 2001; M. Eoc. CAm. [was Sirenia genera et species indet. (Domning et al., 2001)] | `-- †Prorastomus sirenoides Owen, 1855 [Prorastoma sirenoides (Owen, 1855) Lydekker, 1895] Eoc. Car. NA. `--+--o †Protosiren Abel, 1907 [Protosirenidae Sickenberg, 1934] | |?- ?†P. minima (Desmarest, 1822) Hoojir, 1952 | |-- †P. sattaensis | |-- †P. fraasi Abel, 1907 | `-- †P. smithae Domning & Gingerich, 1994 `--+?- †Sirenotherium pirabense Paula Couto, 1967 [Dugongidae or Manatidae incertae sedis] |-- Dugongidae Gray, 1821 [Halicoridae; Dudongidae (lapsus calami)] (dugongs, seacows; merilehmät) `-- Trichechidae Gill, 1871 [Manatidaespan class="isoa">] (manaatit)
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